Synonyms for lack
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Princeton's WordNet(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. lack, deficiency, want(verb)

   the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable

   "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost"

   Synonyms:
   neediness, need, deprivation, wishing, wish, want, privation, deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency

2. miss, lack(verb)

   be without

   "This soup lacks salt"; "There is something missing in my jewelry box!"

   Synonyms:
   drop, omit, lose, neglect, leave out, overleap, pretermit, miss, overlook, escape

Wiktionary(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. lack(noun)

   Antonyms:
   surplus, glut

2. lack(noun)

   To be without, to need, to require.

   My life lacks excitement.

   Antonyms:
   surplus, glut

3. lack(noun)

   To be short (of or for something).

   He'll never lack for company while he's got all that money.

   Antonyms:
   surplus, glut

English Synonyms and Antonyms(3.00 / 2 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. lack

   Synonyms:
   dearth, defect, deficiency, destitution, economy, failure, frugality, inadequacy, insufficiency, need, poverty, scantiness, shortcoming, want

   Antonyms:
   dissipation, excess, exorbitance, extravagance, intemperance, lavishness, overplus, prodigality, profusion, redundance, redundancy, superabundance, superfluity, surplus, waste, wastefulness

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. lack(n)

   Synonyms:
   failure, scarcity, deficiency, want, need, demand, insufficiency

   Antonyms:
   fulness, abundance, sufficiency, satisfaction, supply, competence

2. lack(v)

   Synonyms:
   want, require, need, be destitute of

   Antonyms:
   supply, have abundance of

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. lack(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   want, need, be in want of, be in need of, be destitute of, be without

2. lack(v. n.)

   Synonyms:
   be in want

3. lack(v. n.)

   Synonyms:
   be wanting

4. lack(n.)

   Synonyms:
   need, deficiency, destitution, want, scantiness, insufficiency, scarcity, dearth, default, defectiveness, shortness, shortcoming, DEFICIT

PPDB, the paraphrase database(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. List of paraphrases:

   absence, shortage, lacks, failure, insufficient, scarcity, missing, shortfall, dearth, unavailability, paucity, inadequacy, deficiency, miss, shortages, insufficiency, fault, non-existence, non-availability, shortcoming, deficit, inadequate, lacking, falta, gap, misses, loss, defect, misdemeanour, needed, lacked, absent, no

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